Community Care have reported that the sacking of a UK social worker from a Jersey secure unit would have been considered unfair if his employment tribunal had concluded, an inquiry has found.
Simon Bellwood, who went public in Community Care last year with his concerns, claimed children were being locked up in solitary confinement for 24 hours or more under a system known as grand prix, and that his manager had bullied and harrassed him at the Greenfields unit.
Bellwood claimed unfair dismissal last year and his case went to an employment tribunal this March, which was settled in his favour halfway through the proceedings. As part of the settlement, an independent inquiry into the circumstances of his sacking was commissioned by the States of Jersey employment board.
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